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Trivia: American towns/cities that have a better rail service than their British namesakes

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With passenger rail less significant in the USA than it is in the UK, there are bound to be many stations with fewer passengers than their British counterparts. There are exceptions however such as Newark, whose main station (Penn) is served by dozens of Amtrak, NJ Transit and PATH trains per hour, while Newark in Britain only has a mere 4 trains per hour serving its main station at North Gate.

So can anyone else come up with some American stations which are better served than British ones with the same name (suffixes permitted). Any Amtrak or commuter rail station is permitted.
 
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If we are including PATH, then you ought to allow Boston Subway ('T') and Washington DC Metrorail. Washington, England doesn't even have a rail station, although it isn't too far to Chester-le-Street.
 

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If we are including PATH, then you ought to allow Boston Subway ('T') and Washington DC Metrorail.

Both the US Boston and Washington have a heavy rail station named after them anyway, the former in fact has three (North, South and Back Bay).
 

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I'd hazard a guess that New Haven (Connecticut) which has both Amtrak and Metro North commuter services may be better served than Newhaven in Sussex. May also be true for Stamford (likewise served by Metro North and Amtrak; I'm seeing 3-4 trains per hour offpeak in each direction)
 

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Not the USA, but London, Ontario is "Canada's 4th busiest passenger rail terminal".
It gets 7 trains each way a day according to VIA Rail.
London was the home of the EMD loco factory (class 66 etc) until closure in 2012.
Windsor, Ontario, on the same line, gets 4 trains per day, rather less than Windsor GB.
 

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The city of Stockton in California has two separate stations with a combined annual passenger usage four times as much as that of Stockton on Tees. Not sure if the CA stations are served by more trains per hour, although it could be pretty close seeing as the Teesside town only has 1tph in each direction.
 

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Think I read somewhere that Houston, Texas gets a mere six trains a week..


Senior moment...should have read the OP a second time.... sorry :frown:
 
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Wallingford, Connecticut (served by Amtrak and CT Rail) and Wallingford, Pennsylvania (served by SEPTA) get more frequent services than you'd find at their UK namesake! (but rather unfair of course to make a strict comparison with the CWR heritage line.)
 
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Think I read somewhere that Houston, Texas gets a mere six trains a week..


Senior moment...should have read the OP a second time.... sorry :frown:

Well, technically 6 trains a week is better than the 0 trains serving Houston in Scotland, which is a village near Paisley. But most residents would travel 3 miles to Johnstone on the Ardrossan/Ayr line which is very well served.
 

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Not the USA, but London, Ontario is "Canada's 4th busiest passenger rail terminal".
It gets 7 trains each way a day according to VIA Rail.
London was the home of the EMD loco factory (class 66 etc) until closure in 2012.
Windsor, Ontario, on the same line, gets 4 trains per day, rather less than Windsor GB.
Following that line of inquiry (and assuming "America" can refer to North America and not just the States), there are several contenders on Toronto's GO commuter rail network.

Some of the lines only see passenger trains at peak times, but the Lakeshore line has trains roughly every 15 minutes throughout the day. Stations on that line include Appleby, Scarborough, Pickering and Whitby. The best-served of those stations' UK counterparts would be Scarborough at 3tph, still less than the Lakeshore line's 4tph.
 

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Might be interesting to alter the title to add Australia (and Canada, NZ, South Africa??) here given that these are the countries where places were named after UK places or British people, unless each country warrants its own thread.

Certainly Perth and Melbourne are bigger than their UK namesakes (Melbourne Derbyshire has no station).

Going into suburbs, I believe there is a better service at Penrith (NSW), Ebbw Vale (QLD), South Bank (QLD), Newmarket (QLD/VIC/ Auckland NZ), Sunbury (VIC), Warwick (WA) and Woodbridge (WA) stations. Campbelltown (NSW) is also a big station but the UK town only has ferries now.

There is also a Newmarket in Ontario which has better peak services. Hamilton (NSW) also has frequent services but the Scottish station wins out.
 

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Bryn Mawr PA (pop 3.7k ) has considerably more trains than Brynmawr Wales (pop 5.5k) whose station closed in 1963 . The line has even been electrified for over 100 years.
Bryn_Mawr_Station.jpg
 
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You could add France but Montpellier there has two Ls whereas the one in Bristol just has the one.
 

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New York, Tyne and Wear has no station, the closest is Shiremoor which gets 5 metros in each direction per hour Mon-Fri daytime, does New York Penn station better that?
 

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Bryn Mawr PA (pop 3.7k ) has considerably more trains than Brynmawr Wales (pop 5.5k) whose station closed in 1963 . The line has even been electrified for over 100 years.
Bryn_Mawr_Station.jpg

Excellent - there may even be around 4th generation Welsh speakers in the area.
 
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